Example sentences of "[noun sg] has be [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decin has been lucky in its democratically elected mayor , Zdenek Kropacek , chosen after the the triumph of the autumn 1989 Velvet Revolution . |
| 2 | Rubella ( German measles ) can cause devastating damage to the fetus in early pregnancy and girls who have not had an attack of this disease by the age of puberty are offered immunisation against this virus so that any baby conceived would be protected , although this should soon be rare in the UK because from 1988 , MMR ( measles , mumps , rubella ) protection has been available to all infants . |
| 3 | So our support has been subject to redefined guidelines , as you 'd expect from any efficient organisation . |
| 4 | McLaren boss Teddy Mayer as much as admitted at the end of 1975 that he thought Emerson wanted to move — or that he was in personal trouble of one kind and another — but the official news reached Hunt before it got to the team , and got to Hunt through Domingos Piedade , an eccentric figure close to the cheerful groupie Googie Zanon , a wealthy ( textiles ) Italian aristocrat whose support has been crucial to many drivers at critical points in their career , then ‘ manager ’ to Emerson and now to Ayrton Senna — a fringe career from which Domingos , hugely personable , but also often more a talker than a doer , has made a more than reasonable living . |
| 5 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 6 | Their decision has been crucial to the subsequent direction of the drama . |
| 7 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 8 | Cotswold Wildlife Park has been successful in rearing Black Swans from Australia and , of particular note , the unusual Coscoroba Swans from South America , which have piebald cygnets . |
| 9 | The national park has been concerned for some time about the volume of heavy lorries using roads through the park . |
| 10 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 11 | The pace of educational change has been swift in recent years . |
| 12 | The company 's Special Catering Division has been busy of late , arranging catering at a wide variety of functions including dinner for 400 in the magnificent setting of the Old Library at the Guildhall and two days celebrations abroad a new Geest Line Ship , moored on the Thames , off Greenwich . |
| 13 | The idea that dreaming is essential for sanity has been prevalent in popular science since the eighteenth century . |
| 14 | Next in schedule three there is provision to compensate Mr and Mrs for the extra work involved in caring for Paul , it is agreed that er since they are in the special position of course of being Paul 's carers they are , not er , I mean no disrespect to nursing but they 're not erm it is agreed that there should a deduction of twenty five percent , that would give an annual figure of two thousand , six hundred and thirty one times four will amount to ten thousand five hundred and twenty four pounds , adding these figures together , future care during schooling comes if my addition has been accurate to ninety three thousand , six hundred and fifty pounds in total . |
| 15 | Payment has been satisfied by the issue of 274,914 Savoy ‘ A ’ shares . |
| 16 | It achieved funding for a full-time advice worker in 1983 , although funding has been precarious since the abolition of the GLC . |
| 17 | No response has been forthcoming over the N.A.F.D. comments relating to the Intra Community Transfer of Human Remains . |
| 18 | Delhi 's response has been complicated by the existence of the lame-duck Kashmiri state government of Dr Farooq Abdullah , who fought last month 's general election in alliance with the then governing Congress party , and which is deeply unpopular in the valley . |
| 19 | From the middle ages , Parliament has been concerned with the problems , central to the national economy , of productivity and the control of wages . |
| 20 | The world recession has been tough for all of us , at home and abroad . |
| 21 | Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself . |
| 22 | The relative index has been influential in indexing practice , and many of its principles are incorporated into indexing methods , such as chain indexing . |
| 23 | Taking the wrong course has been expensive for us all . |
| 24 | ‘ The course has been invaluable in terms of awareness and spotting hazards . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ The visitors ’ centre here opened about 18 months ago although the reserve has been open since 1977 and slowly we 're building it up . |
| 26 | The leadership election has been uncontested since 1975 . |
| 27 | What part of any contraction in the demand for elderly workers has been caused by state action over the setting of pension eligibility terms , and what part has been due to the autonomous decisions of employers , must for the moment remain an open question . |
| 28 | ‘ The field has been open to females only during the past year but we soon expect at least 10 per cent of dog-training course applicants will be female . ’ |
| 29 | The University has been fortunate in attracting high quality staff to fill new lectureship posts although there has been some difficulty in filling senior posts , particularly in business and management , which is an area of acute national shortage . |
| 30 | The board has been concerned for some years about the possible impact of excessive dependence on coal — used for 80 per cent of electricity currently generated — if developments in the domestic or international coal market push prices up rapidly . |